Written by

Yvonne Ayala McClellan
| ymcclellan@news-press.com

On a Monday morning in April, a state food and safety sanitation inspector visited the Athenian restaurant in North Fort Myers.

The inspector checked the temperature of the coolers and the concentration of the chlorine sanitizer used in the dishwashing machine. He inspected how much food debris had built up on kitchen shelves and observed how employees handled and stored food.

But it was the presence of more than 10 live roaches and about 60 dead ones throughout the restaurant's storage area and under or near its cookline that ended the inspection unfavorably. ...